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CBEL Project: NSEMO Supply Chain Planning

The North Shore Emergency Management Organization and a CBEL team create a staging plan to get supplies to and from Metro Vancouver’s North Shore communitites.

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CSL: Tetra Society Kitchen Lifting Device

Tetra Society volunteers partnered with CIVL 202 students to design and build a prototype lifting device aimed at helping a community member who has lost significant arm strength.

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CSL: North Shore Emergency Response Rapid Notify Project

The Rapid Notify CSL team help the North Shore Emergency Response Organization plan a warning system for local residents.

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CSL: Pacific Streamkeepers Morten CreekFish Counter

The Team that worked with the Pacific Streamkeepers Federation and Scott Jackson from UBC’s Civil Engineering Department to create a prototype fish-counter for North Vancouver’s Morten Creek.

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CSL: Learning Exchange Carport Reno Project

Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Learning Exchange asked CIVL 202 students to produce a conceptual design for their converted carport area in Sketch-Up and to run Sketch-Up workshops for Learning Exchange partrons.

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CSL: Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden Signage Box

A CSL team finishes a design/build project for the Dr. Sun Yat Sen Garden’s new signage box.

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Key Activity: Small Group Discussions

Listening to others and exploring topics like the pros and cons of developing Canada’s oil sands, how technology impacts poverty in developing countries, transit taxes in Vancouver, and more, help students learn about civil engineering context.

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Key Topic: Systems Thinking

“Where once we saw clockwork mechanisms, we now see self-organization and nested hierarchies characterized by evolution and emergence, attractors, rapid changes, and flips.” .-James Kay, 2008.

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Key Topic: Climate Change

The systems assignment, a plenary panel discussion, small group discussions, and the media critique assignment give students the opportunity to explore the impacts and mitigation strategies associated with this complex issue.

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